Practice Test: Balzac and the little chinese seamstress Vocab

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Short Answer skip

1. Capitalism
   
2. Bourgeois
   
3. Intellectuals
   
4. Balzac
   
5. Voyeur
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. Malaria
   1. adj. people who are able to reason and understand objectively
   2. n. a poor farmer of low social status
   3. n. Balzac, Honore de, a French novelist who lived from 1799 to 1850
   4. n. an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a parasite that invades the red blood cells. the parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes
   5. adj. a body that is thin, skeletal, bony, or skinny
2. Dai Sijie
   1. n. author of the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress and a screenwriter on the film
   2. n. an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a parasite that invades the red blood cells. the parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes
   3. adj. a body that is thin, skeletal, bony, or skinny
   4. n. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state
3. Revolutionary
   1. v. activity of the program set up by Mao Zedong during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Students were taken from there homes and sent to the mountainside to be "educated" by illiterate peasants
   2. n. in historical or literacy contexts, primitive or uncivilized people
   3. n. an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a parasite that invades the red blood cells. the parasite is transmitted by mosquitoes
   4. adj. people who are able to reason and understand objectively
   5. adj. engaged in or promoting revolution